No, we have several holidays that are somewhat similar, but essentially we break your celebration into two components. And then we have one “thanksgiving” day which is totally alien to…
Ocean Choice international is a local fishing company. The key players in the company are from the Sullivan family. You will recall one member of the family - Loyola –…
I can’t argue with their top-line result. But I can certainly take issue with the rest of their list. Specifically…where’s Django? Not in the top 10 even? One of the…
Pssst. Lise and Djaouida, there are cameras everywhere. There are a bunch of savvy right wingers looking for any opportunity to make the opposition look bad. The media is 90%…
The sordid deeds of Tony Clement and the G8 legacy fund remain in the news, as the NDP revealed new documents obtained through access-to-information legislation at the municipal level –…
Polar Bears photographed by Canadian Environmentalists “Arctic sea ice is disappearing on a pace and magnitude unlike anything the Earth has experienced in the past 1,450 years, according to a…
In early December, Corus Radio holds its annual pledge day, raising money for the CKNW Orphans’ Fund, a charity started when Bill Rea founded the station in 1944. A Northern…
EliminateTheProfitMargin StopTheViolenceVille Now that Mike Harcourt, Philip Owen, Larry Campbell and Sam Sullivan have all called for an end to the prohibition on marijuana, can the fanciful Vince Fosterish fantasies…
It’s hardly surprising, but I thought it was worth mentioning. November 23, 2011, is the day that Fraser Institute director Michael Walker officially and publicly announced that he opposes democracy.…
(click pics to enlarge) By the time I got to the Occupy Toronto campsite this afternoon it was mostly gone. The library, where some guy in a Clockwork Orange bowler…
The board of the Fraser Institute meets to discuss their next dubious call for lower taxes on billionaires and the corporations they own. Who finances them, anyway? Secretive organizations may…
During an election there may be one name on each campaign sign that litters a street, but those signs stand for all of us. When it comes to vote, we…
The latest hysterical anti-Muslim insanity from the unhinged mind of right-wing darling Pam Geller: Butterball® turkeys are a threat to freedom!!! I guess by Geller’s “logic” then, Hebrew National hotdogs…
This will also be unpopular with many of my friends and readers. But it’s been bugging me since the first few weeks after the occupy movement took hold across North…
> The JIG is up. An RCMP-led Joint Intelligence Group comprised of federal, provincial and municipal police infiltrated activist groups prior to the G20 and Vancouver Olympics in what they…
What you can do to help: The Roadmap is a positive step forward (with a few wrinkles), but is deficient in boldness in remedying the democratic deficit in our party.…
Updated below with more information. By now, it’s pretty much common knowledge that you can (attempt to) request information from government agencies and offices under the various Freedom of Information…
